We see or hear on the news about Fentanyl quite often these
days. Most of the news is about people who overdosed on a mixture of Heroin and
Fentanyl, or how many times more potent than Morphine Fentanyl is.
Drugs are about money, it doesn’t matter if its prescription
drugs from your doctor, illegal drugs from the street or the money law
enforcement receive in grants; drugs are always, about money.
In this case the new guidelines, regulations, and laws have helped
both sides to make a lot of money. Drug Cartels found out Fentanyl was cheap
and easy to make. According to Stratfor.com it costs about $3,300 to make a
kilo (2,2 lbs) of Fentanyl.
CNN tells us recently Nebraska State Troopers seized 118
pounds of Fentanyl in a traffic stop. That amount is enough to overdose 26
million people. That amount cost the cartels $180,000 to make.
But this time we told then what the change in guidelines, regulations,
and laws would do. After 40 years of the war on drugs we knew what the
unintended consequences would be, illegal drugs would fill the void.
Heroin.net tells us the
average cost of a single dose (0.1 g) of heroin purchased on the street has
been reported as approximately $15–$20 in the U.S. state of Ohio.
So the 26 million doses would have been worth $390,000,000
street price to Cartels for that one shipment. And trust me cartels never put
their eggs in one basket, how many shipments got past troopers that day?
Now cartels are manufacturing Carfentanil also called
Carfentanyl.
According to Wikipedia Carfentanil
is an analog of the synthetic opioid analgesic fentanyl. A unit of carfentanil
is 100 times as potent as the same amount of fentanyl, 5,000 times as potent as
a unit of heroin and 10,000 times as potent as a unit of morphine
The problem is how the drug world distribution works. At the
top if you mess with quality you may not do well in the drug world. But as the something
like Carfentanil with a potency 10,000 times that of morphine shifts down
through the drug world, everybody is going to step on it. Imagine the profit
for a drug dealer?
In 1mg of Carfentanil you have the equivalent of 10,000 doses of
Morphine, wow. The problem for little Donny drug dealer is how to evenly distribute
1mg of Carfentanil into 9,999 mg’s of whatever little Donny drug dealer is
using for cut.
If little Donny drug dealer makes a mistake and it’s easy when
we’re talking about overdosing a little over 1/10,000th of a milligram.
Prohibition doesn’t work…..
Wikipedia
Heroin.net
CNN
Stratfor.com
